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Creative Dissemination: Community-Engaged Mural to Disseminate the PORTRAIT Registry on Peripheral Arterial Disease [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective The PORTRAIT Registry tracked 797 patients with new or worsening PAD symptoms at vascular specialty clinics and highlighted the underutilization of prevention services and significant disparities in quality of life among women, non-white patients, and those with financial barriers.

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Well-being Investment: Movement & Exercise

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

(NEW) TLDR at the bottom* We are looking at your investment in your own well-being with the emphasis this go round on physical health. You Know This - still - it’s a good time to review through the lens of self instead of patient care. Lower risks of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality.

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Patient Violence Travels Cross-Setting: From EMS to ED to Inpatient

Physician's Weekly

Research shows that patient violence spans care settings, starting in the out-of-hospital setting, continuing in the ED, and persisting into inpatient units. The analysis captured 206 violent out-of-hospital encounters, 868 violent ED encounters, and 3,561 violent non-ED hospital encounters involving 2,251 unique patients.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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Walking into Room 33, my next patient, who had come to the ER complaining of cough and cold symptoms, seemed just as I had expected. He was a few years shy of middle-age and appeared to be in good physical shape. I, for one, would much rather hear the cough than have a patient struggle in his description of it.

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Your Least Favorite Emotion, and What to Do with It.

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

We often distance ourselves from emotions to stay focused in emergencies or maintain professionalism with patients or in power differential situations in training. She said something along the lines of - 'Look therapsist and physicians all get Lesson 1 - You have to emotionally regulate in the moments of stressful patient situations.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% Release Stress Anxiety can be pathologic, resulting from a physical or mental disorder beyond an individual’s control. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, IN and has a passion for putting his patients first in his practice. In his free time, Dr.